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markus625
08-12-14, 17:51
Im sure many of you who seen the thread Title e2bmc for Mut@nt HD2400 alpha is here

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?42529-e2bmc-for-Mut-nt-HD2400-alpha-is-here

I thought i would put up my honest review of this.

Having downloaded the image onto my mutant it does take a while to boot up, some things i have tried so far.

After scanning the channels I used Dreamboxedit to load my bouquets see below for settings.

/etc/e2headless

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Image taken from openatv forum

One thing I have noticed is that upon selecting a bouquet the numbering starts at 1 for every bouquet so keying in channel 4 in the entertainment bouquet would give you ch4 and hitting 4 in the movies bouquet would give you Sky Greats, you cant jump to a entertainment channel from within the movies bouquet etc as you have to move to that bouquet.
Also no information is pulled apart from the channel and title of the channel you are viewing so the epg guide is empty.

The crossepg plugin has no effect.
Picons do work and appear on the left hand side of the info bar.
CCCam 3.0 worked for me allthru no information to tell you its working or not

So on the stb side of things theres not much to talk about very basic indeed.

On the xbmc side of things I did manage to get a patched version of Mashup working but was out of luck with the Plexbmc addon as was getting a script error, I did try this on my windows pc and the same error there.
I use myplex username to access my plex cloud account as in the Dreamplex plugin for enigma2 which works just fine.

I can say that it plays H264 ok and DTS-HD blurays ok but not VC1 encoded rips or anything with Dobly True HD, also will not play Bluray isos and also DVD-isos are dodgy also.

Also tried H265 which also failed which is not surprising.

I think i will be going back to OpenVixHD which supports Dreamplex.

I think a better alternative would be a separate xbmc box attached to the |Mutants HDMI-IN such as a INTEL NUC for xbmc content which you can access by pressing the context key on the remote, unless you can live with a mulitboot alternative.

Maybe in time the E2bmc image will be improved and the likes of blackhole, openpli and vix make there versions of it.

But not that impressed so far with E2bmc.

rossi2000
08-12-14, 17:58
can you confirm dts-hd is being passed through? or just the core.


any chance of some screenshots of the sat side and xbmc side please?

Rob van der Does
08-12-14, 18:04
....I think a better alternative would be a separate xbmc box ....
So not much has changed then, compared to 'normal' E2 boxes.

So far I've always seen any mediaplayer functionality as an extra; for real mediaplayer functionality use a real mediaplayer, not a satellite receiver.

markus625
08-12-14, 21:32
Some screenshots if anyones interested.
For some reason only the osd is captured.

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markus625
08-12-14, 21:34
one more showing video codec h264 and audio being dts-HD

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Rob van der Does
08-12-14, 21:35
How is the reaction speed of the box?

rossi2000
08-12-14, 21:40
that looks ok to me. so the image boots to xbmc, then in the main menu you get STB, which takes you to what looks like a modified metrix skin.? and then in there is just like an e2 box?

not including any extra addons etc,, how is the speed if the base image? any lags?

rossi2000
08-12-14, 21:41
one more showing video codec h264 and audio being dts-HD

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looks like its only playing the core track. 1500kbps is DTS.

markus625
08-12-14, 21:43
How is the reaction speed of the box? channel zapping is pretty quick I would say the poster scrolling in the movie view is not as fluent as in my windows xbmc installation but it is as quick as the Vix image in other respects .

markus625
08-12-14, 21:50
Boot time from flipping the power switch at the back is roughly 35 seconds to the live TV transmission

wte
10-12-14, 00:19
One thing I have noticed is that upon selecting a bouquet the numbering starts at 1 for every bouquet so keying in channel 4 in the entertainment bouquet would give you ch4 and hitting 4 in the movies bouquet would give you Sky Greats, you cant jump to a entertainment channel from within the movies bouquet etc as you have to move to that bouquet.


This option can easily been add. It's forward to developer.



but was out of luck with the Plexbmc addon as was getting a script error, I did try this on my windows pc and the same error there.
I use myplex username to access my plex cloud account as in the Dreamplex plugin for enigma2 which works just fine.


Strange, here I can connect to my PLEX server without any problem. I check it again today with and without a user password.



anything with Dobly True HD, also will not play


Strange here plays Dolby True HD



Also tried H265 which also failed which is not surprising.


H265 support is only support in new coming Kodi 14. So we need to wait and see if the hardware is powerfull enough to play something.

wte
10-12-14, 01:01
For plexbmc did you set follow: (For PleXBMC Helper) HTTP Server enabled in XBMC (Settings > Services > Webserver > Allow control of XBMC via HTTP)

rossi2000
10-12-14, 07:45
Strange here plays Dolby True HD




are you sure its playing tru-hd and not just the core?

DaMacFunkin
10-12-14, 09:21
This core question is really only a set up thing, the fact that the player recognises MA-HD is enough to suggest it should be able to bitstream it via it's 1.4 output hdmi to a suitable reciever, if the unit recognises that the next connected item is a tv it will default to core playback.

rossi2000
10-12-14, 09:32
Just because the software see,s it doesnt mean it will pass it through.

Trial
10-12-14, 09:54
Hi DaMacFunkin,
it is more a demuxer thing. DTS-MA simplified consists of 2 streams one with the core and one with the rest similar to DTS 96/24. TrueHD is a bit more complex as it does not have a real downward compatible core as DTS has.

ciao

markus625
10-12-14, 10:42
Well I've gone back to Vix for now untill the image is more developed.
Some things to remember.
1: they need to use kodi now
2: the new pvr in kodi looks nice
3: is the image open source, can anyone compile there own version com the git.
4: does the mutant pass thru dts-hd and true-hd
5: is it capable of playing vc1 streams, is it down to software or hardware.
6: we need to test video streams in both Vix and E2bmc images.

markus625
10-12-14, 13:13
I can confirm that is doesn't pass dolby true hd to my receiver.
As i only have a 5.1 setup I can confirm that the dts-hd is being played but my receiver only sees it is dts but have no way of knowing if it is actually dts-hd coming thru.

Does not play vc1 streams very well it is blocky and distorted.

rossi2000
10-12-14, 14:28
your amp will light up with tru-hd or master audio.

is your amp not HD-Audio capable?

markus625
10-12-14, 15:05
Looks like it doesn't support hd audio after all.
It's a sony HT-SS100 which support lpcm 5.1 thru hdmi but no dts hd or dolby true hd, but with other media players I've owned the sound does come thru the amp with those codecs but maybe only the core is coming thru.
Can anyone with a hd capable amp confirm it passes it thru.

rossi2000
10-12-14, 15:12
i could if i had a mutant haha :)

i dont think i can part with my et8000 for a mutant atm,. :)

nsw9154
10-12-14, 15:55
I receive my Mut@nt Tomorrow :D